woodhack

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woodhack (plural woodhacks)

  1. The yaffle
    • c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 82, lines 418–419:
      The woodhacke, that syngeth ‘chur’,
      Horsly, as he had the mur; […]
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